Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications. This role is responsible for architecting and administering both on-premises and AWS cloud environments while driving automation, infrastructure-as-code, and continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in Linux systems administration, cloud technologies, networking, and DevOps practices with a strong understanding of enterprise application infrastructure.

Working closely with software architects, infrastructure teams, and technical stakeholders, you will:

• Translate application architecture into reliable operational environments.
• Ensure compliance with security standards.
• Implement modern automation strategies that improve efficiency, scalability, and system reliability.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated organizational and time management skills with the flexibility to shift priorities while managing multiple initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and creating IT infrastructure from architectural design documents.
• Demonstrated experience in systems analysis, systems architecture, and systems design.
• Demonstrated experience translating design documentation into operational infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to create and maintain "as-provisioned" infrastructure documentation.
• Demonstrated experience training and mentoring software architects on infrastructure limitations, design tradeoffs, and deployment considerations within a FISMA Moderate environment.
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile environments using Kanban methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience researching and evaluating emerging technologies and implementation strategies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge and hands-on experience administering Linux-based server environments.
• Demonstrated scripting experience using Shell (BASH, KSH, TCSH) and either Python or Ruby.
• Demonstrated experience provisioning and administering Apache Apache Tomcat, Python/Django applications, and Ruby on Rails applications.
• Demonstrated knowledge of common networking protocols including TCP, DNS, FTP, TLS, along with JSON, XML, YAML, and infrastructure support tools such as Ansible and Nagios.
• Demonstrated AWS Cloud Operations experience equivalent to an AWS Certified Professional.
• Demonstrated experience supporting OCCS or organizations of similar size, scope, and complexity while partnering with internal customers to automate operational functions.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Requirements

• Manage application server provisioning through automated means.
• Create, edit, and maintain Ansible provisioning and patching for both on-premises infrastructure and AWS Cloud environments.
• Create, edit, and maintain load balancing and load throttling rules for network traffic supporting applications hosted on both NLM infrastructure and AWS Cloud.
• Create, edit, and maintain AWS CloudFormation, AWS Config, and AWS Lambda scripts for application servers.
• Coordinate with technical infrastructure teams to ensure work is completed in accordance with established Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Create and maintain approximately 2,500 firewall rules supporting application network communications.
• Manage, maintain, and administer application server platforms including Python, Java, Ruby, Node.js, and PHP on CentOS Linux operating systems.
• Research, recommend, and implement continuous improvements to application server environments, with an emphasis on security, automation, patch management, and configuration management.